Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Glass etching

My cousin Judith got married last month and I wanted to make a keepsake present for her and her new husband.
Below is what I came up with :) (Enlarge the pictures for a better view)

I still want to add a black background so the etching shows better, but I think it looks pretty cool (it better after 4 days of work!)




Tell me what y'all think about this.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Trashy-Fashion

No, it's not what you think..it's "fashion" made out of trash(bags).
This was a few years back (summer of 2007) at an improv "fashion-show" at the Carmelite Sisters in St. Louis, MO during Life Teen's talent-show.
I think I should remake my outfit in the picture below in real fabric..it might be nice :)

 

Now I see this picture again, I notice the bow reminds me of a project I saw on Abbie's 5 days 5 ways blog --> yet another reason to actually make this outfit, because the tutorial on Abbie's blog looks easy to follow and the finished product super cute!

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Tufted ottoman-Part I

Abbie from 5 days 5 ways posted a tutorial on an awesome tufted ottoman she created. The picture of the ottoman below is the finished project. Check out the tutorial here.


When I saw the tutorial, my loving husband and I were just thinking about changing some things in our house to get a bit more color in our interior (we have a lot of dark brown/black furniture) and get a more 'homey' feel to it, so I thought trying this project myself would be wonderful!

For weeks I scouted the Dutch version of craigslist -> Marktplaats.
Eventually I stumbled on the coffee table below.



I thought the dimensions were perfect but when I got it in our living room and piled the foam on top, I thought it was a little too high, so hubby was sweet enough to shorten the legs a little bit


I also bought this wooden, old looking serving tray to use when I finish the ottoman so we can still put our glasses on the table ;)


Tomorrow husband is going to drill the diamond pattern into the table top and after that I'm going to sand the legs and stain them.
After that it's on to the tufting..I'm excited!

Below a sneak peak into the fabric I'm going to use.
I bought some more fabric than necessary to make some matching pillows for the couch..



More pictures to follow :)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Summer hat

Both my sister and I aren't particularly tall (5'4" and 5'5") thus this summer's maxi dress rage is a little bit diffucult because in almost all dresses it looks like we're drowning. However, my sis bought two super cute maxi dresses and asked me to shorten them for her. (If I get her to model them for me I'll share with you later.)
To go with the whole theme (might I add, although it is almost August, it feels like fall over here..rain every single day and we should be happy if the temp. gets up to 70F, so it's safe to say I am hoping like crazy warmer days are still to come..luckily for my sister, she gets to go to Portugal on Saturday (and enjoy some sunshine there)) mom bought her a cute little sun hat. Since I thought the hat needed something extra and I had a few inches of fabric left over from shortening my sisters maxi dresses, I added a bow, or well I gave my sister some options (see below; and yes at this time pins are holding everything together and the third option still needs a vertical piece of fabric in the middle). As soon as she decides which option she likes best I'll finish it and show you some pictures (together with the dress).

##Update: my sister has informed me it'll be the first option, so a picture of the finished product will follow tonight!

On a different note, I also made a matching headband and a belt out of the remaining fabric (also to be shown later this week)

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Macrame necklace - part 2

After finishing the two macrame necklaces below I decided to give a ribbon version a try, and here it is! And I'm loving it!


Macrame necklace

Inspired by the PS I made this website, I made these macrame necklaces last winter. Unlike PS I made this I decided to weave 3 strands and tighten it.


A touch of blue

My loving husband gave my this cute blue heart shaped pendant which can hold a picture. I made this ribbon necklace to attach it to (I however can also connect it to something else)
Than I spool knit this blue ribbon bracelet to match


Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Monogram keychain

This is obviously a project from before my husband and I got married. My maiden name starts with an H and since I was working with clay that day (making beads for bracelets, which I will post about later) I decided to try to use one of my wax stamps used for making seals on the clay and make a monogram keychain..and it worked out great (but since I've used it for about 4 years already the H is worn down a little)

Shirt to Cardigan

I bought this shirt a few years back because I thought the ruffled sleeves were cute..however it turned out I didn't like the shirt too much..I thought it was too plain and well I just didn't feel comfortable in it..so I ended up never wearing it.
As part of my re-fashion or donate to GW project, I decided to turn the shirt into a cardigan and added some trim (which I salvaged from a skirt I never wore anymore). I also made a little corsage to either wear on the cardigan or in my hair..and (yeah!) now I like wearing it again :)

Tiny plates

Further to my previous post, some more Blond inspired porcelain painting.
The cup is a Blond original. The plates (from the same tea set I used for the sweetner pot) were painted to match and serve to serve tiny cakes and cookies on :)

Some more porcelain painting

I've been collecting "Blond" cups, plates etc over the years. Blond is a Dutch brand with some awesome stuff (check out the website at www.blond-amsterdam.nl). Sadly it's a bit expensive. Anyhow. I got the sugar pot below for my birthday last year (along with some other Blond items) and since my mom doesn't use sugar but sweetner (in small tablet form) I decided to make a smaller version of the sugar pot (the sweetner pot..how original..) I used a sugar pot from a little tea set for children and painted it to match :) (for all you non Dutchies, the top says "zoetjes" = sweetner)


Bag for mom

The first bag I ever made :)
This one is a gift for my mom to store her bible and journal in.

Brothers of St. John

My brother is joining the Brothers of St John in France in September, so I bought him a funny statue. It however didn't have the right colors, so I hand painted it the right color and added some more hair (on top of the head ;)) and painted that the right color as well.

Love you JJ and very proud of you!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Halter to vintage inspired dress

I had this dress in black and bought this one on sale. It however is a difficult color and has too much cleavage for my liking. Also, since it was a halter dress and most of my bras aren't halter or strapless the straps were constantly showing which I didn't find very charming. So I decided to turn it into a dress with "normal" knotted straps, add some ruffles to disguise the cleavage and add a vintage inspired skinny belt, and now I'm loving wearing this dress again!

Our wedding

This obviously doesn't have anything to do with re-fashioning, crafying or whatever, but I thought I'd share this picture of our wedding last year. I love this picture, but most of all, love love love my awesome husband